Elevated sex

The discovery that regular sex may prevent colds and flu (This Week, 17 April, p 6) did not come out of the blue. Carl Charnetski and Frank Brennan's earlier work, in which the psychologists discovered that listening to canned music in elevators helps ward off colds, won them the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine.

This vital health information should be trumpeted to the publicespecially to anyone who may still be hesitant about having regular sex in elevators.

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